This year, the VA-NKO will, together with the Royal Belgian Society of Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, again organize a Temporal bone drilling contest for ENT-trainees.

The assignment is:

Anatomical dissection consisting of a complete mastoidectomy with attico-antromy and posterior tympanotomy with preservation of the scutum and posterior bony canal wall and skeletonization of the semicircular canals and the facial nerve as well as the chorda tympani.

The other rules are:

- Only one submission is allowed.- You have to be an ENT-trainee at the deadline.- Deadline is January 15, 2013.- Delivery to: Elisabeth Geens, secretary PO Box 1248 B-3001 Leuven – Louvain Telephone: +32 473 35 27 80.

Prizes, 1.000 and 500 Euro for winner and runner-up respectively, are awarded during the prize session of the Spring Congress 2013.